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Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would support the next version of the Fast Identification Online (FIDO) spec, allowing devices to work with a wealth of third-party biometric readers and providing an easy framework for any hardware makers that want to build extra security into a laptop or phone. I thought they did already?
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There's a new trend called "devops" that is sweeping the enterprise IT world and its become a life-or-death career situation for many IT departments. "Are you not entertained?"
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Quote: And here's the dirty little secret about devops: Although IT departments will be buying new software tools to help them work in this fast new way, there is no multi-million or multi-billion dollar "devops market."
That's what they said about agile at one point; how many billions of dollars do useless agile conslutants suck out of IT budgets now?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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From Google to The White House, everyone is on GitHub. If you don't know what GitHub is, keep reading, because I'm also going to talk about why it's one of my favorite websites and share some of its most popular features. "But all the cool kids are doing it"
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Question raises, "Is CodeProject on GitHub, or is GitHub on CodeProject"?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I bet that kid hasn't even heard of SourceForge.net
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Can I run it off a flash drive?
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Quite a lot of features there I didn't know about!
Kevin
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Kent Sharkey wrote: From Google to The White House, everyone is on GitHub.
emmmm... no, not everyone
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A while back—the year 2000 to be exact—Joel Spolsky wrote a blog post entitled: “The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code.” The 12 Step Program
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If you don't instrument and monitor your code you will have no objective way to determine if you are good or bad yourself and have to rely on the feedback of less knowledgeable people - what I call the Santa Claus loop.
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Ha! The linked Joel post links to this one http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html[^] which says
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They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
"
about Netscape. Isn't that what Microsoft is doing to IE now?
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What an amazing coincidence.
Hopefully with a happier ending.
TTFN - Kent
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Happier than the death of Netscape? Hard to imagine.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Isn't that what Microsoft is doing to IE now? Not really...Microsfot try to improve IE, while re-branding it under a new name...But the engines are still the same there...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not even close. Firefox was a rewrite from scratch. Spartan is an IE11 fork with all the legacy IE bug/weirdness support cruft deleted; but still using Trident/Chakara for rendering and javascript.
...and that's a lot of cruft. When they announced Spartan MS said there were already "more changes" between Spartan and IE11 than between Chrome and Safari. While they didn't (afaik) define exactly how they were counting changes, after Google forked Blink from Webkit developers on both sides posted self congratulatory comments about the hundreds of thousands of lines of not-my-code they were able to delete from their repositories.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Some interesting, and funny, "features" of JavaScript starting about 1:26 into this video: [^].
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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I do not know what JavaScript engine he used, but of course most of the results he gets are not exist in any engine I know, and some of the others have a very acceptable and understandable explanation...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Actually, nearly all of them work in Mozilla.
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I can't see that...All the ridiculous object/array part works as expected (and not as he displays it in the show)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No, in Firefox everything behaves as he said, except for the 16 commas
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That Batman thing is just awesome ...
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NY Times 02/14/15 "One by one, museums across the United States have been imposing bans on using selfie sticks for photographs inside galleries (adding them to existing rules on umbrellas, backpacks, tripods and monopods), yet another example of how controlling overcrowding has become part of the museum mission." [^]
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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BillWoodruff wrote: imposing bans on using selfie sticks I think a more appropriate punishment is to let an old lady beat you senseless with your selfie stick if you have one.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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